Health & Science

• Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Life expectancy growth in UK has halted: baby girls can reach 82.9 years and baby boys, 79.2

  

  Growth in life expectancy in the UK has come to a halt, new figures show. A girl born between 2015 and 2017 is expected to live until 82.9 years old – no change on the previous figure for 2014-16, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure for baby boys born in 2015-17 is also unchanged, at 79.2 years.

• Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 08:18 UTC

  World leaders commit to bold targets and urgent action to end TB

  

  World leaders meeting at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly have committed to ensure that 40 million people with tuberculosis (TB) receive the care they need by end 2022. They also agreed to provide 30 million people with preventive treatment to protect them from developing TB.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  WHO publishes “Coming of Age” on better health for adolescents

  

  The World Health Organization has published “Coming of age”, an in-depth online feature to advocate for better health for adolescents. The package includes video, gifs, visuals, and features on a range of topics on adolescent health, spanning mental health, sexuality education, as well as violence against and among youth, which remains a leading cause of adolescent deaths world-wide.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina ready to launch a satellite to monitor natural disasters and soil moisture

  

  Argentina is launching a new microwave imaging satellite to monitor natural disasters and soil moisture, in a long-term bid to bolster the farm sector, an industry that has historically been the backbone of the country’s economy.

• Friday, September 21st 2018 - 12:52 UTC

  Project to control invasive grass wins HackathonAGRO competition at Expo Prado agri-show in Uruguay

  

  The British Embassy in Montevideo co-organized the third edition of HackathonAGRO which took place at Uruguay's main agriculture show, Expo Prado 2018 on 15-16 September.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  UK tests life-saving chemical detection robots and drones

  

  A new fleet of robots and drones designed to test for chemical agents, provide 3D mapping and identify casualties have been put through their paces by British troops, police officers and scientists for the first time.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  UK/Argentina hold antimicrobial resistance scientific seminar in Buenos Aires

  

  Scientists from different British universities, Argentine researchers and representatives of the organizing agencies took part this week in Buenos Aires in a seminar organized jointly by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) from the UK, and the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina.

• Thursday, September 13th 2018 - 10:29 UTC

  Cancer burden rises to 18.1 million new cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths in 2018

  

  The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released on Wednesday the latest estimates on the global burden of cancer. The GLOBOCAN 2018 database, accessible online as part of the IARC Global Cancer Observatory, provides estimates of incidence and mortality in 185 countries for 36 types of cancer and for all cancer sites combined. An analysis of these results, published today in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, highlights the large geographical diversity in cancer occurrence and the variations in the magnitude and profile of the disease between and within world regions.

• Saturday, September 8th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Award for new map of South Georgia and the “Shackleton Crossing”

  

  British Antarctic Survey’s detailed map of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia featuring the epic “Shackleton Crossing” has won an award at the 2018 British Cartography Society Awards.

• Friday, August 31st 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  India announces its first manned space mission to cost US$1.4bn

  

  India announced it expected to spend less than 100 billion rupees (US$1.43 billion) on its first manned space mission to be launched by 2022, suggesting it is likely to be cheaper than similar projects by the United States and China.